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Back To The 50’s 2017—First Report From The Land Of 10,000 Street Rods
Forty-four years and counting. That’s a pretty proud run for Back To The 50’s hosted by the Minnesota Street Rod Association, and judging from the event’s continuing success, this is a run that could...
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Back To The 50’s 2017—A ’64 Falcon With Sixties Personality Wins Best Ford In...
Nostalgia is the driving force behind every hot rod build. Whether it’s nostalgia for a long lost car that continues to generate great memories after half a century, or nostalgia for a period of time...
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GALLERY: Wisconsin Challenge Series at Dells Raceway Park
Wisconsin Dells, WI- Andrew Morrissey was victorious in the second race of the Wisconsin Challenge Series Saturday night at Dells Raceway Park. Morrissey made a late pass on Bobby Kendall to collect...
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Hot Rods Should Have Flame Paintjobs … it’s the law
Flames. Probably no graphic applied to an automobile has endured as well as them. Fire invokes power and everybody wants the hottest of hot rods. We sure wanted the hottest Road Tour car this year. So...
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The Story of the Mulholland Speedster 1936 Packard That’s Sweeping the Show...
When Bruce Wanta from Bellevue, Washington, saw the “Black Widow” Model T pickup, a contender for the America’s Most Beautiful Roadster award at the 2009 Grand National Roadster Show, he fell in love...
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Fair or Foul? Super Late Model Finish at Slinger
It seems every time we check in with our friends down at Slinger Speedway there is a wild feature finish sparking conversation. Sunday’s Super Late Model finish at the quarter-mile provided another...
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How to install custom seats
There are a lot of reasons you may want to swap out the seats in your ride. Maybe the stocker is a giant bench and you want buckets, or like so many 70s and earlier models, they don’t recline....
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Get A Preview Of The Hundreds of Cars And Parts At The Ben Snobar Estate...
Washington State is so green that driving through it feels like being underwater. Even the sky was a sort of hazy green-gray, like it was overgrown with celestial lichen. The only splashes of other...
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How to Select and Install High-Performance Engine Bearings
There’s a bearing type for every reason and every possible application. MAHLE Clevite has got you covered, from Mom’s grocery-getter to 11,000hp blown Nitro motors. Here’s the scoop on choosing the...
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Old-School Cool 1958 Chevy Shortbed Fleetside
It’s been 59 years since this 1958 Chevy first rolled off the assembly line, if indeed it really is a 1958-year model. An argument starter for sure, take a look at the Apache 3100 emblems on the side...
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Oldsmobile’s Ultimate Muscle Car: 1970 4-4-2 W-30 Packs 455 Inches of Rocket...
Meet California natives Roxy Starr and Ilona, her mother. Roxy has always wanted to be like her mom. Ilona is a longtime muscle car enthusiast. Over the years her cars worth mentioning include a 1969...
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Latest News From the Street Rod Hobby
Detroit’s Hot Rod History In 1952, a group of car clubs from the Detroit area formed the Michigan Hot Rod Association. The MHRA wanted to build a dragstrip for local rodders, so in 1953 it hosted a car...
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Rumors Are True: Dodge Announces Widebody Hellcat For 2018!
We broke the news about SRT’s suspected Widebody Hellcat earlier this month and today Dodge affirmed the product plan today revealing important details at a long-lead press event at the Chrysler...
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Rare Mustangs and a Few Mopars Inhabit This Garage
At the introductory meeting of the Roadkill Takes America group in Detroit, we learned that Doug, a Ford employee who helped fix Roadkill’s General Mayhem 1968 Charger, had a story all his own in the...
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Moving Ford-Ward: Dustin Foust’s 1955 F-100
Ford Motor Company’s had some rather interesting and quite memorable ad slogans over the years. And when it comes to touting their F-100 series pickups, the agency creatives have developed some...
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Racing Around: June’s Short Track News
Knoxville Raceway Announces 2017 Hall of Fame Inductees Knoxville, IA- Knoxville Raceway has announced its 2017 Hall of Fame inductees. Danny Lasoski (Driver) Jeff Woodruff (Crew Chief and Owner),...
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MSRA Back to the Fifties Week Tour Visits AMSOIL INC.
On Tuesday we all headed north on I-35 to visit the headquarters of AMSOIL INC. in Superior, Wisconsin. We were greeted by Advertising Director Ed Newman, who gave us a brief history of AMSOIL INC....
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Drag Testing a Pair of 800HP Lingenfelter Chevrolets
Lingenfelter Camaro ZL1 and Z06 Strip Smackdown: You Could Win Both! “What’s in your garage?” is a common question among hot rodders, and who wouldn’t like to answer, “A Lingenfelter Performance...
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Roadkill Nights Powered by Dodge Returns to Woodward Avenue for a Second Year
You keep asking, and here is the answer. Yes. Roadkill Nights Powered by Dodge is back, and yes, there were be drag racing, car shows, thrill rides, dyno tests, and lots of Freiburger and Finnegan and...
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This 1957 Corvette Shakes the Streets
It’s not every day that you have the opportunity to display your car with some of the hottest rides on the ISCA show car circuit then get it home, fill it with race fuel, and go drag racing. For Mark...
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